“So, rebel-kings, use your heads; Upstart-judges, learn your lesson: Worship God in adoring embrace, Celebrate in trembling awe.” (Psalm 2:10–11, The Message)
If there is one thing that people-watching teaches us, it is that when it comes to life, and especially to our particular culture, we are all rebel-kings. We live by our own authority (or so we think anyway); we have our own particular theology (with ourselves as god and God as a genie); we brook no opposition to our own set of beliefs and bow to no other god (okay, maybe we bow to the gods of materialism and entertainment, but not to the Creator-God).
Psalms 2 was written to strike down any hope we might have that being a rebel-king will be successful. The only way we can be successful is to lay down our arms; to wave the white flag of surrender; to yield; to worship God in adoring embrace.
Lay down your arms, Oh rebel-king. You who think that you can live by your own authority and will. Yes, you.
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